Operation Details

Clawhammer

'Clawhammer' was a British unrealised plan for a special forces raid by commando units on a German radar and communications site near Cherbourg on the north coast of the Cotentin peninsula in German-occupied northern France (September/October 1942).

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The attack would have used five commandos as well as paratroopers, and was cancelled in mid-October.

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